I am fortunate to have had these wonderful opportunities of interesting development work and research projects with extraordinary people. Following are some team works in which I have participated.

Together with Dr. Peter E. Hildebrand and Dr. Jim W. Jones we have produced a manuscript entitled Modeling the Effect of Household Composition on the Welfare of Limited-Resource Farmers in the Coastal Cañete Valley, Peru. This manuscript is accepted for publictaion by the Agricultural Systems Journal.

Working in north Florida under the Florida Consortium: University of Miami - Florida State University - University of Florida, funded by NOAA, with Dr. Norman E. Breuer, Dr. Peter E. Hildebrand, and Dr. Jim Jones, we have produced the paper entitled Potential Response of north central Florida Livestock Producers to Long-Term Climate Forecasting that is currently in reviewing process by the Climatic Change . A presentation was prepared for the Plata Basin Initiative 2002 Workshop of the American Associaion for the Advancement of Science.

Current working in progress with Dr. Norman E. Breuer, Dr. Peter E. Hildebrand, and Dr. Amy Sullivan is the article Modeling Diverse Livelihood Strategies in Peasant Livelihood Systems Using Ethnographic Linear Programming, which is a systematization of several years of work and experience with linear programming worldwide.

Also, working in progress is the paper Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience of Rural Workers in an Ecuadorian Agro-socio-eco-system using Ethnographic Linear Programming with Dr. Norman E. Breuer and Dr. Peter E. Hildebrand.

Working as a consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), associated with the Valle Grande Rural Institute in Cañete, we produced the first and unique (in Peru) Geographic Information System of the Cañete Valley in agreement with the Agricultural Ministry. I am proud to know that the founded Information Systems Office from Valle Grande is still actively working in the Cañete community. This GIS identifies each and every one of the 4,800 farms in Cañete and contains more than 20 layers of information.

In order to develop a serious development and extension work in the Cañete community, we did A Profound Diagnostic Research that included 100% of the target public of the Valle Grande Rural Institute (600 farmers). A comprehensive survey was undertaken and the information collected was indexed in a database. The Valle Grande Database is now a routine-used working tool. It connects socio-economic, demographic, productive, environmental, and political information for each one of the family-farms. The database requires periodic updates and allows the user to make intelligent queries to retreive information in a fast and efficient manner.